I want to talk about basic economics. Everything, EVERYTHING, comes down to demand. People are greedy mother-fuckers. When we see a shiny rock, we want it for ourselves. Its probably been that way since we were protozoans. What does this really mean though? Well, back in the stone age there were plenty of shiny rocks around for everybody. Besides that, humans were fairly occupied with the whole aspect of survival. Well then one day some fucker named Grok realized that when he consistently shit in the same spot and consumed berries, that a berry patch grew out of his shit hole. Astounded, Grok came to the only logical conclusion: that he must be God. And so, proudly, Grok began showing other people his shit. They too began to believe.
So they formed a community, named Grokistonia, that always shat in the same neck of the woods, and they thrived due to the abundance of Grokberries. Well soon, non-Grokistonians began to want their own supply of Grokberries and were willing to trade their shiny rocks for Grokberries, which was the start of a burgeoning business of exported Grokberries (there was literally just too much of that shit to go around, but hey, why not make an honest shiny rock?) This was how Capitalism was born.
So, fastforward to today. There are still a lot of shiny rocks and we’re inventing new ones every day. But! There are also a lot more people. So many, in fact, that the population wants more shiny things than actually exist or ever will exist. In order to understand this curiously unrealistic view of the world, man-kind invented Economics. Economics made a system of the realization that we are not rational. We choose not be aware of the basic fundamentals of our own bodies and our connection to our environment. As a species we are unrealistic and unreliable.
Countless attempts throughout history, both vile and virtuous, have occurred to bring humanity to one single consciousness. Some have had minor and, in many cases, individual changes or effects. Others have ripped across the history of our species like a tsunami careening into a shore. Ultimately, these misguided attempts failed to recognize that only a whole, total awakening of our population could lead to Truth. Whether or not this is possible, I don’t know.
The difficulty in Truth lies in its origin. What is Truth? How do you define it? Can it be passed to an individual as a system if its discovered? Or is such a system just another organism, that goes about its life consuming and relinquishing its fecal, and then dies once its life runs its course? I see such systems as nothing more.
Truth is all around us. It is there for us to observe. And to taste, and touch, and feel, and hug, and love. Truth is also always changing. To hold on to what Truth was in the past, is to blasphemy Truth in the present. I think it is quite possibly equally wrong for us to sell Truth of the future, for more Truth now. However, both extremes of the world, the religious seekers of future Truth, and the material-besotted seekers of past Truth, are not worth the sum of their parts. The only way to end wars, end hunger, end cancer, end fear, and maybe, just maybe, end dying, is to pull our heads out of the Grokberry bushes and smell the freakin’ roses!
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Yes, I'm high.
Edited by smokintheherb (04/18/11 11:34 PM)
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